Incredible atmosphere

I know I am bit late, but recently I have had a lot of work and I haven’t found the time to seat down and write without pressure. I have a few ideas in my head and in the next few days I will try to write them down. Today I want to explain what I felt two weeks ago when Barcelona celebrated its Marathon, which is improving every year with more participants year after year.

I know this post is late, because the Marathon took place on March 16^th but I think it deserves a few lines. Even though I have been training hard this autumn and winter and I would have been able to complete the race, I didn’t register myself because I wasn’t convinced. However, a few days before the Marathon I started to regret my decision but I couldn’t change it.

As I wasn’t going to run it, I first try to volunteer but they appointed me a kilometre point far from where I live so I decided not to do it. The second option was to wake up early and get down and cheer the runners. Hundreds of people had the same idea because when I arrived to the street there were a lot of people waiting for the runners. I have to admit that in that moment I really regretted my decision.

However, I decided to get down with my running shoes and ready to join some of the friends that I knew that were participating in the Marathon. I saw a lot of them in the 4th kilometre and when they passed by point kilometre number 10 I started to run with José María Rubi, a journalist from RNE who ran under 3 hours two years ago. I went with him during 5 or 6 kilometres and it was amazing.

Hundreds of people along the streets clapping and cheering the names of the runners. The atmosphere was great! There were friends, family, tourists, Barceloneans… A lot of people in the streets. I really felt unhappy when I decided to get back home because I think I wasted a great opportunity to run the Marathon and, especially, because there was an incredible atmosphere in the whole city. 19.000 runners participated in the Marathon that grows every year. 

If you like running and you want to complete a Marathon, don’t doubt it and registered yourself in Barcelona’s one. It is really great!

The blue line

Barcelona woke up a few days ago with a blue line painted on it main streets. Nearly 20.000 runners will follow that blue line on Sunday to complete one of the biggest sport challenges: the marathon. 42,195 meters that will begin and finish at the same point: Plaza España. The runners will go around the main streets of the city and pass by our principle monuments.

I won't participate this time. I have been training the whole winter, but this Sunday I have to work and I will not be able to run it. When I finished Barcelona’s half marathon and after all the efforts I have to say that I was even glad not to run it. However, in the last days, I felt really sorry because I think I am fit and ready to finish the marathon. I will have to wait another year, even though I don’t know if I will be able to sacrifice me like these past years.

What I will do is go down and see my friends run. They go pass my house in the 10th kilometer and I be there shouting and giving all my support. For me anybody who runs the marathon deserves my respect. It is something terrible, hard and really tough. I would even say it is not human but once you finish you feel as if you were the king of the world.

That blue line is the lead for all the heroes that will run this Sunday. All the training, the sacrifices, the bad moments will have the price this Sunday when the runners cross over the finish line. All my best wishes to all of them. On Sunday I will be in the streets with them giving the all my support. They deserve it! Come on!